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Goings On ... UPDATE ... Late breaking details ... Dr. Thom sniffing around the Federal Court ... Ceremonial footage chopped ... Judicial review of AAT decisions ... Apprehended bias ... Grief from a Senior Member ... Prejudgment ... Theodora with the latest edition of Goings On ... Read more >> 

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Dangerous liaisons ... The real story of Water Softener and Planet … A blizzard of prejudicial communications … How to derail an inquiry … From the Defamatorium … Reynolds v Higgins trial goes to sleep while judge tries to work out what it’s all about … Alex Greenwich v Mark Latham … Sizzling Fn’Q ... Read on ... 

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      Barrister Charlotte Proudman being pursued by the Bar Standards Board in Britain over tweets in which she criticised a family court judge ... "Echoes of the boys' club ... The trivialisation of domestic abuse and gendered language"
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      Federal government slices and dices the law firms on the drip for Commonwealth work
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      The debate ... The history of presidential debates and their consequence for elections
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A judge created fantasy ... The Crown and its immunity ... Blackfellas out West denied basic health and housing by Sand Groper regime ... Legislation ignored ... Class action underway ... The wavering fronds of the presumption ... Clinging to the Jacobeans ... Procrustes inveighs ... Read more >> 

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Costs will not be awarded against applicants in court claims for sex harassment and discrimination ... Implementation of the missing bit in the ALRC's Respect@Work recommendations ... More >>

Justinian's Bloggers

Degrees of punishment ... Green, blue and red computers ... The labyrinthine path to education in pokey ... Patchwork arrangements that freeze out prisoners from getting a degree or certificate ... Dark age policy that keeps felons in their place ... Veronica Lenard reports ... Read more >> 

"I used to live in Glebe and, as a young person, went to protests against cuts to the ABC, so I am horrified to have to go into battle with them. It is personally deeply upsetting that an institution I regard so highly is a constant opponent." 

Defamation lawyer Rebekah Giles, who acted for OnlyFans star Heston Russell against the ABC and collected $390,00 in damages plus costs. The Sydney Morning Herald's CBD column, September 19, 2024 ... Read more flatulence ... 

For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au 

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Tootsies with Planet Janet ... Water Softener and the Planet ... Further details of the width and depth of their relationship ... Chief Justice of the ACT grants Justinian's application for access to more documents ... A barrage of text messages and phone calls throughout the Drumgold investigation ... Collated reporting ... More on Sofronoff and Albrechtsen ... Read more ... 

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Heydon, Albrechtsen and Meagher ... Albrechting ... Journalists believed Janet Albrechtsen would be an associate to Dyson Heydon on High ... Sadly, not so ... More arch remarks from the authors of Meagher, Gummow & Lehane’s Equity Doctrines & Remedies (4th edition) ... Read more ... 

 

 

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Friday
Feb052021

Secret sheriffs' business

• DateFriday, February 5, 2021

South Australian chief justice lashes the use of secret evidence by parliamentary inquiry ... Finding of a culture of bullying in the Sheriff's Office ... Ummm ... This is the same CJ, who as solicitor general, assisted in plans for secret police intelligence to be unchallenged in court ... Procrustes reports on the storm that has spilled from the teacup 

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Tuesday
Feb022021

A smoking ruin

• DateTuesday, February 2, 2021

Republicans cling to Trump ... A short history of white supremacists and electoral disruption ... Neo-Confederates on the march ... Trafficking in pardons and associated sleaze ... Roger Fitch in Washington on Trump's grotesque legacy 

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Thursday
Jan282021

Resumption of play

, • DateThursday, January 28, 2021

Inflated terrace decorations ... Here comes "Mandy Jane" ... Council of the Order of Australia gets Stoned ... Law 'n' order at the Top End ... Post-Covid life at Vic's Bar 'n' Grill ... Theodora does the rounds 

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Tuesday
Jan262021

Christos moves on

• DateTuesday, January 26, 2021

Shake-up at Commonwealth AGs ... Siren call of the Afghanistan war crimes investigation ... Notetaker's notes go missing and with it evidence relating an an "improper inducement" ... Rekindling memories of the AHRC's Forgotten Children report ... Polly Peck remembers 

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Saturday
Jan232021

Tribunal top-ups

• DateSaturday, January 23, 2021

Latest batch of AAT appointments ... Christmas delivery from The Christian ... A few lawyers and plenty of the faithful included ... A notable deputy president goes missing 

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Tuesday
Jan192021

Darwinian legacy

• DateTuesday, January 19, 2021

Survival of the fittest ...Alistair Wyvill cleared ... Eight year toxic Top End drama draws to a close ... Disciplinary Tribunal squelches NT Supreme Court judge and Stella Maris commissioner ... Pro Bono termination ... Procedural unfairness ... No finding of ulterior strategy ... Buffalo Bruce reports 

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Thursday
Jan142021

Murder at sea

, • DateThursday, January 14, 2021

Underwater slaughter of a journalist ... The struggle to get a murder conviction ... Danish police methodically unravel the case ... Dogs sniffing the waves ... Miss Lumière reviews The Investigation 

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Tuesday
Jan122021

Mental health round-up

• DateTuesday, January 12, 2021
Solicitor fails to submit client's history of mental illness to sentencing judge in NSW ... Instead relies on character reference from Hillsong "youth leader" ... Schizophrenia ... Miscarriage of justice ... Tasmanian offender with borderline personality disorder ... Trial judge rapped for failing to suspend part of the sentence ... Brief sentencing comments in court ... Different and longer written version ... Michael Baker reports 

Sunday
Jan102021

Madcap election litigation spree

• DateSunday, January 10, 2021

Republican lawyers wreaking damage on the legal profession and rule of law ... President Trump and the violation of federal laws on electoral interference and extortion ... Late impeachment in the wind ... Rioters seeking martyrdom ... Whither the republic? ... Roger Fitch reports from a wounded Washington  

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